CHILL OUT CODA Wins At The Oscars Director Sian Heder’s film CODA has won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 94th American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Also nominated for the top prize were Belfast, Don’t Look Up, Dune, King Richard, Licorice, Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story and Drive My Car, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, The winning film, whose title CODA stands for ‘Child Of Deaf Adults’, is about a girl Ruby, the daughter of deaf-mute parents, who is trying to help the family with business and music.
500 Million-year-old Fossils Found In China The ancestors of many animals alive today may have lived in modern China more than 500 million years ago, a new study has found. One of the oldest groups of animal fossils currently known to science have been found in Yunnan, southwest China, including the remains of more than 250 species. It is a key record of the Cambrian Explosion, which saw the rapid spread of bilaterian species — creatures that, like modern animals and humans, had symmetry as an embryo, i.e. having a left and a right side that are mirror images of each other.
John Cox Wins The Serbian PEN Centre Award John Cox, a translator and university professor from Fargo in North Dakota, is the winner of the Serbian PEN Centre Award for the best translator of Serbian literature in 2021. “John Cox has been singled out among other translators for his dedicated and persistent work over the last 15 years translating the works of contemporary Serbian writers of several generations”, says the Board of Directors of the PEN Centre. Cox works with literary translation and has so far translated works by Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Branko Ćopić, Danilo Kiš, Biljana Jovanović, Judita Šalgo, Goran Petrović, and a number of other authors into English.
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